Heart Surgery
Written by Pat Christian, Vice-President, Evangelicals for Life Wife of Rev Bruce Christian, Rose Bay Presbyterian Church In the recent school holidays, I took our profoundly disabled seven-and-a-half-year-old grandson, Luke, …
The Lockhart Report
Written by Stephen A. Chavura Lecturer in Political Thought at the University of Western Sydney The Lockhart Report (December 2005) is a 183 page Legislation Review of the Prohibition of …
Cloning Human Embryos
Written by Rev. Dr. Peter Barnes The further that Western society drifts from any moorings in the Christian view of God, the further it drifts from any Christian view of …
I Could Have Missed Out
Written by Kirsty England, Winmalee, NSW, Australia. Cited with permission from Above Rubies June 2006, no.67 I have just kissed my little boy good-night, my little boy who I almost …
The Bible’s View of Abortion
Written by Rev. Dr. Peter Barnes The God who has revealed Himself in His inerrant Word reveals Himself as the God of life. To choose Him is to choose life; …
Abortion and the Reformation
Written by Rev. Dr. Peter Barnes We tend to think of abortion as a practice which suddenly descended upon us in the 1960s. In fact, it has been widely known …
The Forbidden Grief: Confessions After Abortion (Psalm 32)
Written by Rev. Dr. Peter Barnes You have had an abortion. You believed that in the circumstances it was the best thing. They told you that it was just a …
Medicare Funding of Second Trimester & Late Term Abortions
Written by Senator Guy Barnett, Liberal Senator for Tasmania Partial birth abortion is a second trimester and late term abortion method which has been banned by the United State Congress. …
How Can We Remain Silent?
Written by Rev. Bruce Christian If God has spoken to us clearly about his concern for the life of the unborn child, how can we remain silent? Will he not …
The Principle of Autonomy
Written by Rev. Professor Douglas Milne Principal of the Presbyterian Theological College, Melbourne No principle has had greater influence in the practice of bioethics and clinical medicine than that of …